Chapter 44: A Carefully Concocted Lie
Hearing Professor Mary's words, Brandi and Orianna behind the bathroom door were simply surprised. They had been working hard in the ballroom to polish and wax the tables and chairs ten minutes ago, and they didn't find anything on the way out to look for Fleur.
"Damn it, you dare to attack the Aurors!" Old York's voice contained anger, "Charles, you take Mary and Alan to the school hospital!" The others come with me—"
"Wait, I'm going too!"
It was Professor Mary's voice, her voice staccato with a heart-rending cough in between. "Don't worry about me, that guy is already injured - my curse hit Alan at the same time he snuck up on Alan with his stun curse...... We fought a few rounds in the ballroom, and then... Ahem, I can't beat him...... You know...... His spell threw me against the wall, then broke open the window and fled outside the castle. ”
"You've done a good job, Mary, don't keep trying. You don't know how to fight, and it's just a nuisance for us. ”
"But, but......" Mary's voice was particularly unwilling.
"There's no time, it's an order!" Old York commanded, "Charles! Bring her and Eren on board, and we'll take care of the rest! ”
There was a commotion outside the door for a while, and the people of the brigade blew in the direction of the dance hall like the wind. The man named Charle was left to accompany Professor Mary as he walked slowly upstairs, and in the distance, Charles's concerned voice could be heard: "You should have raised the alarm at the first time, Mary, you know that you are just a theorist!" ”
"I'm sorry, Charles......"
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After a while, there was a faint murmur in the dead hallway, a glimmer of light in the sealed boys' bathroom, and a crack in the doorway. Immediately after, a discolored head emerged from a crack in the plank.
"They're far away?"
"I think so......" Brandi looked around to make sure before retracting his head and closing the door again.
"Whew, finally saved!" Only then did Fleur breathe a sigh of relief, and she leaned limply against the wall like a puddle of mud. She had been so nervous just now, her muscles had been tense the whole time, and now she was suddenly relaxed, and her legs were not even able to stand.
"It's terrible that the man in the cloak can defeat the Aurors! No wonder my spells didn't work for him, but luckily you found me first...... Otherwise, I can't imagine what would have happened. ”
Brandi and Orianna looked at each other, and Orianna shook her head at him, both of them looking wonderful.
"Now that the Aurors have gone outside the castle, we had better take this opportunity to hurry back to the dormitory, knowing that if you run out in the middle of the night and get caught, you will be punished to wash the dishes in the kitchen. Why are you all looking like this? As soon as the boulder in her heart hit the ground, Fleur, who was still trembling like a small animal just now, quickly turned back into the original proud beautiful girl, she got out of the bathroom talking to herself, walked two steps, and found that the two people behind her were a little strange.
"What do you say," Brandi pondered for a long time how to explain this complex and confusing issue to Fleur, "have you ever thought about it...... The guy who attacked that Alan wasn't a man in a cloak, but someone else,"
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"You mean? Professor Mary is lying to us? Hurrying up the stairs, Fleur's eyes widened, and she still couldn't recover from the shock of learning the truth. She knocked Eren unconscious?! ”
At this moment, they were trying to make their way in the direction of the dormitory, and the Aurors were all mobilized outside the castle to find the man in the cloak who didn't exist, which made them extremely unscrupulous.
"Lying to her colleagues in the Ministry of Magic, to be precise...... So that the Aurors can divert their attention from the first floor. "I have to say that this statement is so ingenious, she must have noticed in the ballroom that Orianna and I had not yet cleaned up the traces before saying this, and those marks would have helped her to make the lie so seamless that she didn't even have to work on the manufacturing site." ”
"Yikes! Vestige?! Fleur heard a terrible term, and she looked at the big sister Orianna with strange eyes, and then at Brandi, who was ragged and even her underwear loomed, as if she had thought of a series of indescribable things. Wow! It's okay to do that kind of thing so intensely - I mean, it's a kind of fun that makes me a little ...... Well, there was some surprise. ”
Brandi was confused for a moment, and always felt that something was not quite right about what Fleur wanted to express, but she inexplicably remembered Oriana's frequent message, and couldn't help but blush, and coughed heavily. It made him seem even more empty-hearted.
"Ahem, anyway," he said, "her lie has obviously succeeded, and no one doubts the veracity of her words—Professor Mary has made the defenses of the entire castle clear with the help of a fictitious and murderous wizard. I dare say that while old York was playing a detective game outside the castle with his men, the real murderer had once again slipped away under everyone's noses without realizing it - the man in his cloak who had taken the life of a student. ”
At the mention of this, the blood on Fleur's face immediately faded.
At this time, Orianna spoke, and the tone like a spring breeze and the breath of a confidant sister exuded all over her body made people can't help but want to get close to her.
She begins to try to seduce the frightened Fleur.
"Miss Delacour, I know it will be difficult for you to recall what just happened again. But in fact, we're the only three people in the castle who can get to the bottom of it - anything we say about that guy could be the key to solving the whole mystery. Help us, Delacul, tell us, what did you just see? ”
"I... I ......" Fleur snorted for a moment, letting go of her clenched fist. "I just wanted to go to the ballroom and see what you're doing... I happened to see your message to Britney, so..."
Oriana glared at Brandi fiercely in the hidden corner of her sight, sending chills down his spine, and then gently hugged Fleur like no one else, her palm gently brushed over Fleur's waterfall-like hair, and the whole person exuded a maternal glow. This made Brandi suddenly have a terrible sense of déjà vu - before Hogwarts departed, this black-bellied guy seemed to be paralyzing himself with sweet language, while quietly removing the hair ring and starting to lay it out.
"Go on, don't be nervous Fleur, big sister, I won't blame you~"
Tut! Suddenly, Tian shamelessly called his name!
Her tactics were undoubtedly effective, and Fleur soon fell into this sweet trap and began to tell them about her terrible fate.
"I came out of the dormitory on the fourth floor and went straight down to the staircase on the first floor, avoiding the patrolling Aurors. I had wanted to go straight in the direction of the ballroom - but as soon as I came downstairs, I caught a glimpse of a glow in the corner of the hallway...... I knew it was an Auror who had come to make a round, so I quickly found an empty classroom and hid it so that they wouldn't find out. Then Professor Mary walked over to the classroom I was in, and she didn't see me. ”
"Huh? Wait a minute? ”
Brandy frowned, "Didn't Old York just say that Professor Mary was assigned the task on the third floor at the beginning, and it wasn't time for you to scream, what did she do running down in advance?" ”
"I don't know, she seems to be impatient, as if she is looking for something."
Looking for something...... Brandi blinked. "And then? Where did you see that caped monster? ”
"Monsters?!" Fleur was dazzled by the strange title, but kept going. "Since Professor Mary was leaving just in the right direction to the ballroom, I'm afraid she'll suddenly show up and catch you both...... So I thought I'd take a shortcut to let you know - it's dark in the hallway, and I don't dare to chant a spell, so I guess I'm going to some activity room......"
Her voice began to tremble. "I suddenly felt that something wasn't right around me, as if something was staring at me, so I stopped and looked behind me, but there was nothing behind me, so I turned my head - but the moment I turned my head, there was a dark shadow in the window of the activity room next to me! He's leaning against the window, looking at me! ”
Remembering this, Fleur couldn't suppress the fear in her heart, and sobbed quietly, and Oriana gently hugged her and rubbed her back. "Good boy...... Good boy~"
"Woo, it's scary, I was screaming and running forward, but he slipped out of the activity room as if he had no real body - clinging to the wall, not even making a sound! I was so frightened that I recited the Leg Lock Charm and the Petrification Charm to him, but the spell didn't respond to him at all, and the cloak would light up with a dense ancient script, deflecting my spell aside—he was so fast and chasing after him that I was almost cornered! But when I ran around a corner and came back, he was gone...... Immediately after, you and Britney found me. ”
"Ancient scripts on the cloak? Is it the Rune Rune? Or cuneiform? Orianna seemed to have spotted an important clue, "Do you remember what those spells looked like, even a little bit!" ”
Fleur snorted, racking her wand to draw a few symbols in the air, and it seemed that the unforgettable memories of horror made her remember the details very clearly. "The spell on it is not complete, there is a bowl in the middle, as if it has been erased by some magic...... That's what it looks like. ”
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